Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> With all the talk about Perl recently, it has come to my attention
> that Perl the swiss army chainsaw of computer languages turned 20
> years old yesterday.
> Happy Birthday Perl!
> Anyone care to share thier favorite "Perl to the rescue!" stories?
I absolutely abhor a lot about perl, but it's got some great things
going for it as well, not the least of which is CPAN and its plethora
of network admin tools. When I had to write a program to map out the
topology of large clusters booting for the first time, I went straight
to perl, even though I've written very little with it before. I was
able to listen and respond to DHCP requests and query SNMP MIBs on
switches, building the database of MAC address to IP address to switch
port mappings that I needed.
Not only did it solve a need at my previous job, the experience helped
get me my next job as well. Yay for perl! May perl 6 soon bring
sanity to the poor benighted language. ;)
--Levi
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